Apologies to Sherwin Gooch. He appropriated the term cybernetic (or man machine) to describe the digital music environment of the synthesizer software he was developing on PLATO. He called the machine the Gooch Cybernetic Synthesizer.
I have appropriated the term to describe my three word poem - Cybernetic haiku, except my appropriation of the term has no sense or logic behind it. I just like the sound of the word.
This is a proper Cybernetic Haiku consisting of three nouns. The Cybernetic Life has little to do with being a man machine, but instead is my dietary prescription for health and long life. I suppose that a fully self-actualized being who is a totally efficient actor with minimal pre programmed error, could be described as Cybernetic in this day and age.
Take anti oxident vitamins Eat high fiber food Drink only water Enjoy life of music art peace thought and reverence Be thoughtful and considerate
Norbert Wiener coined the term "Cybernetic" in the 1940's. It is an adjective that describes and human and machine synthesis or the systems engineering principle of "engineering control with feedback."
Sherwin says that it will one day be possible to image your brain and make a recording of the configurations of your thought and memory and then download your personality into a whole new young healthy body, thereby achieving immortality. For when that new body wears out, you can then download your personality into another even newer body.
I wonder what happens to the old body? Does it get its memory erased? Or does it live on as the "Original Person - now discarded" in anonymity and oblivion? I wonder if the original body gets depressed at the realization that his entire life memory has been taken by another person with a new young body. Which body is the the "real person" I wonder.
It probably is easier to eat healthy and avoid unnecessary risks.
Apologies to Sherwin Gooch. He appropriated the term cybernetic (or man machine) to describe the digital music environment of the synthesizer software he was developing on PLATO. He called the machine the Gooch Cybernetic Synthesizer.
ReplyDeleteI have appropriated the term to describe my three word poem - Cybernetic haiku, except my appropriation of the term has no sense or logic behind it. I just like the sound of the word.
This is a proper Cybernetic Haiku consisting of three nouns. The Cybernetic Life has little to do with being a man machine, but instead is my dietary prescription for health and long life. I suppose that a fully self-actualized being who is a totally efficient actor with minimal pre programmed error, could be described as Cybernetic in this day and age.
Take anti oxident vitamins
Eat high fiber food
Drink only water
Enjoy life of music art peace thought and reverence
Be thoughtful and considerate
Norbert Wiener coined the term "Cybernetic" in the 1940's. It is an adjective that describes and human and machine synthesis or the systems engineering principle of "engineering control with feedback."
ReplyDeleteI read my new poem "Cybernetic Life" to my friend.
ReplyDeleteShe said, "Is THAT a POEM?"
This may be one of my best poems ever --
ReplyDeletethe fountain of youth?
Sherwin says that it will one day be possible to image your brain and make a recording of the configurations of your thought and memory and then download your personality into a whole new young healthy body, thereby achieving immortality. For when that new body wears out, you can then download your personality into another even newer body.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what happens to the old body? Does it get its memory erased? Or does it live on as the "Original Person - now discarded" in anonymity and oblivion? I wonder if the original body gets depressed at the realization that his entire life memory has been taken by another person with a new young body. Which body is the the "real person" I wonder.
It probably is easier to eat healthy and avoid unnecessary risks.